Zora Neale Hurston Language
- This is a preview of the essay.
To view the full text you must login!
Zora Neale Hurston alternates languages in Their Eyes Were Watching God to show the difference between the two worlds. Hurston uses highly figurative narration and colloquial dialogue language throughout this novel. This effect helps to develop the readers understanding of the text. Hurston alternates between the dialogue and narration in different ways when telling the story through conversations, community, and the porch.
Hurston alternates between the two to show that the reader is looking in on another world. Hurston tells the story in dialogue when she wants the reader to look into that world at that time. Hurston uses figurative narration when she wants to give a summary of the dialogue for a better understanding for the reader. Hurston also uses narration as another world so that after the reader looks into the world of the novel, she can bring them back and explain what's going on. The link between the two worlds is the emotion. While your looking into the world of the novel the reader relates by bringing it to the today world...